Day three and four of our Mediterranean Cruise

     Day three was our only day at sea on the Princess.  It was nice to take it easy for one day and be a little lazy.  We slept in, enjoyed the pool, read, and relaxed.  It happened to be October 31st so there were special activities for Halloween.  One thing that I saved from our trip was our daily newsletter,
The Princess Patter.  It has so much information in it about the place you are to visit and any activities for the day.  *A good tip is to take a close-up photo of the daily paper and then your pictures immediately following are of that port.  Then don't delete any photos til you get home so they stay in order.  It is difficult to go back and identify some of the places when you are going to a different port each day. 
     Day four was Santorini and I will always remember the beautiful white and blue buildings dotting the mountainous landscape.  The town we visited was so quaint.  The pictures tell it all.

A view from above...breathtaking!

White washed buildings cling to the cliffs.

Our ship, The Princess

You just can't take a bad picture here!!

Our view from the ship of our first Greek Island, Santorini

Shopping in Santorini was so quaint.  I loved the narrow streets,
white washed buildings, and stone streets. 

We stopped at a winery and this was our view!
Ahhhh!  I want to go back and start all over again!

     A volcanic eruption occurred about 1600 BC here in Santorini and it is thought that it destroyed Crete's ancient Minoan civilization and as a result we have  the "myth of Atlantis, the lost continent".  Archaeologists have unearthed remains of the Bronze Age city in approximately 1967.  So let your imagination run wild.  To me this is what made everything so fascinating.  We were actually visiting places that I had read about and had seen in movies with so much history.  Just to think that people lived here so many years before and that we are so much alike with similar inventions, hobbies, likes, and dislikes.